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Special Holiday Meals: National Ice Cream Day

Published on July 12, 2017January 16, 2026 by Susie @ Pollywog's Place Blog2 Comments

National Ice Cream Day is the perfect day to pull out that old ice cream maker and make a batch of homemade ice cream! Click here to learn more about this holiday. It is celebrated on July 13th.

This might also be a nice day to plan an ‘Ice Cream Social’, where your friends and family can have an ice cream-making competition. Have everyone bring their favorite ice cream toppings, and everyone can make a different flavor too! We had this every year before school started when my older kids were little, and it was SO MUCH FUN!! We also had their birthday parties together at this time… knocking out a few ‘birds’ at a time!

Here are our favorite recipes for celebrating National Ice Cream Day:

Hot Fudge Sundae Cake – so good with fresh homemade ice cream!

Banana Splits

Fruit Cobbler with Ice Cream

Frappes

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PB & Jelly Swirl Muffins

Published on July 12, 2017November 12, 2019 by Susie @ Pollywog's Place Blog1 Comment

These yummy little muffins came about this morning after my four year old requested some PB & Jelly muffins last night. I thought about it a little and this morning I played around with a few ideas and ingredients to come up with this recipe. These will definitely be put on the rotating meal plans from here on out.

You could use chunky peanut butter and possibly add some chopped peanuts to the crumb topping if you wanted to. Continue reading “PB & Jelly Swirl Muffins” →

Special Holiday Meals: Pecan Pie Day

Published on July 11, 2017January 16, 2026 by Susie @ Pollywog's Place Blog1 Comment

Pecan Pie Day is the day we can eat Pecan Pie for no special reason! Click here to learn more about this holiday. It is celebrated on July 12th.

Here are some of our favorite pecan pie recipes:

Mama’s Southern Pecan Pie

Chocolate-Pecan-Coconut Pie

We have a couple of side dishes that we use pecans in too:

Butternut Squash Medley

Sweet Potato Favorite

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Check this out!

Published on July 10, 2017December 4, 2017 by Susie @ Pollywog's Place BlogLeave a comment

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